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Posted by Toby Inkster on 04/25/06 10:20
Travis Newbury wrote:
> Why design for the minority and try to put fixes in for the majority?
> (Sounds like a liberal thing, but I won't go there right now)
For several purely practical reasons -- different reasons will apply to
different people:
* (in my experience at least) it's generally *easier* to design
for a standards compliant browser and then tweak for IE than
the other way around;
* IE is not a cross-platform browser, so the developer may not
have a copy on their main development platform;
* IE generally suffers from many security problems: by avoiding
it for the majority of the development process, you're helping
secure your development workstation;
* Many people like to use web developer tools that are available
built-in (or as add-ons) to their non-IE browser;
* IE's caching mechanism can sometimes be a little off-kilter:
sometimes it will continue to use an older version of a style
sheet when a newer one has been uploaded -- this can make
testing a pain.
Take your pick. Choose several if you like.
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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